Angels Fall Crew
RUSSELL TAYLOR (Director). Russell was recently chosen for the 2006 Backstage Bistro Award for Director of a Cabaret for The Fabulous Pink Flamingos: Live From the Lu’au Lounge. Directing credits include: Naked Macbeth, The Revelation Circus, The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, The Berliner Faustus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Andorra, Peter Pan, The Crucible, A Company of Wayward Saints, The Diviners, and Fool of Hearts. He has written the book for five musicals: Waiting on Blue, Far Away Places, Hollywood Hallelujah, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve , and Come by Here. His theatre-adjacent career has included stints as: Fuzzy the singing cop at Disneyland, a walking puppet theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, an improviser at the L.A. Connection, a day care worker, a Sunday School Teacher, a Bible Salesman, a High School Drama Teacher, and a graphic artist. In 1975 he was voted Most Humorous by Mrs. Argebright’s Seventh Grade Speech and Drama Class. He has spent the remainder of his life defending the title. He hopes one day to be the sensitive one in a boy band. www.russelltaylor.com
DANIELLE CAMPBELL (Production Stage Manager). Recent credits: Assistant Producer: Oh Rats! (York Theatre); Assistant to Producer: Drama Desk Awards 2003, 2004, 2005; Follow Me (Theatre at GTT), The Luigi Board (Theatresport), (Theatresport), Shades of Harlem (Theatresport), Company (Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Black Monk Chekhov Now! Festival (Connelly Theater), Asshole Monologues (Manhattan Ensemble Theater), South Africa to Broadway starring Tsidii Le Loka (The Lion King,), Spirit of South Africa (Orpheum Theatre, TN.) Epimenidies (Lamb’s Theatre); Directed: You’re It! The Musical That Puts You In The Spotlight! (Tony’s Di Napoli); Assistant Director: Follow Me (Theatre at GTT); Danielle has also line produced and worked on various films and has numerous acting credits as well.
BERNARD FOX (Sound Design). Our sound designer returns to the live theater after a multi-year hiatus. Recently he has been teaching audio at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC, while pursuing other audio disciplines as a theater systems designer, recording engineer, and surround sound mixer. In the past, he was the Theatrical Sound Designer of the Broadway productions of City Of Angels, Sophisticated Ladies, Sweeny Todd, Squonk a Broadway surround sound musical, and the Associate Designer of Beauty and the Beast. He is the inventor of Performance Automation, the first audio automation for live sound, and the head worn theatrical microphone, both, currently duplicated by many companies. Recently he has designed new High Definition Audio/Visual theaters for Hilton Hotel and others, which includes a unique 18 foot, 1080p picture, and a studio accurate surround sound system with either Meyer or Genelec speakers.
GINNY HACK (Lighting Design).
ANDREW SELTZ (Set Design), co-founded the Theater Forum Series. He worked as Stage Manager for the New World Repertory Company in Chicago and performed with Children’s Theatre at the Second City in Chicago. Andrew is a freelance video producer and also works as a digital media producer for the American Bible Society, where he served as Executive in Charge of Production for the children’s television series Kingsley’s Meadow and the award winning short film Resurrection starring Jim Caviezel. He has worked as Producer and Director of Photography on the feature films Under Surveillance and Elevation Due West (which he also directed). He is affectionately known in the Blogosphere as “The Go-To Guy.” www.andrewseltz.com
MARBY LEE (Graphic Design).
ELLEN SELTZ (Producer), first participated in Theater Forum as an actress in the 2001 production of Interference 10.5, and is producing the 2006 season. Ellen is a prolific actress and aspiring writer. Her children’s musical Stone Soup is currently in development with Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Threads New Works Series, and has had two workshop readings in Manhattan. Ellen received her degree in Drama from Duke University and trained in the Shakespeare Intensive at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She has performed with theater companies throughout the Southeast. Most recently, Ellen appeared as Irene in Mark Medoff’s Kringle’s Window at The Northeast Theatre, and as in ShakespeareNYC’s Julius Caesar. Other New York roles include Edith Stein with the Ligourian Players, Vita in the Actor’s Co-Op East staged reading of Angels Fall, and Mrs. Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor for Gorilla Rep. She can also be seen in the award-winning independent film Delayed and the popular made-for-TV drama Face on the Milk Carton - a Lifetime Channel perennial. www.ellenseltz.com
ANN MARIE BEDTKE (Producer), has been a part of Theatre Forum in various capacities from its inception. She was also a line producer for the feature film Elevation Due West. Ann Marie is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. Her favorite acting credits include Olympia in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part II, Beline in Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid, Kate in Uncommon Women & Others, and Carol Churchill’s Top Girls. Ann Marie will be receiving a B.A. in Social Theory, Structure and Change from Empire State University this year.
KRIS CHEN (Sound Operator). is a student in Institute of Audio Research. As an aspiring audio engineer, he has recently recorded Songs of Love and A Festival of Lessons and Carols, two live musicals and operas in the James Chapel of Columbia University. Kris is also a classical violinist, who has participated in solo, chamber music and orchestral performance in Juilliard Theatre, Paramount Theater, Aspen Music Festival and others. He was also a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. He loves all types of music and has taught himself to play piano, guitar, and bass guitar. With the capability of reading music and perfect pitch, he is devoting himself into the audio field. Kris is also a member of Audio Engineering Society, Christian Cadence Music Outreach Center, and a rock band. He is also bilingual in English and Mandarin.
ELLIOTT CLANTON (Sound Operator).
AARON HABERER (Set Crew).
